Biography
Richard van Kleef works as an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam). His research and teaching focus on the evaluation and improvement of healthcare systems. Specific areas of expertise include regulated competition, consumer choice, risk adjustment, risk sharing, provider payment methods, and consumer cost sharing. The key question in Richard's work is "How to achieve universal access to healthcare while enabling and incentivizing patients, providers and insurers to use resources wisely?"
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Associate professor | Health Systems and Insurance (HSI)
- vankleef@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Andreea Panturu, Richard van Kleef, Frank Eijkenaar & Daniëlle Cattel (2025) - A Framework for the Design of Risk-Adjustment Models in Health care Provider Payment Systems - Medical Care Research and Review, 82 (1), 43-57 - doi: 10.1177/10775587241273355 - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & René C.J.A. van Vliet (2024) - Supplementing risk adjustment with high-risk pooling using historical data for identifying the high risks - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 92 (1), 166-202 - doi: 10.1111/jori.12500 - [link]
- Richard van Kleef, Rene van Vliet & Michel Oskam (2024) - Risk Adjustment in Health Insurance Markets: Do Not Overlook the “Real” Healthy - Medical Care, 62 (11), 767-772 - doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001955
- Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven & Richard C. van Kleef (2024) - A critical review of the use of R<sup>2</sup> in risk equalization research - European Journal of Health Economics, 26 (3), 363-375 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-024-01709-8 - [link]
- Richard C. van Kleef, Mieke Reuser, Pieter J.A. Stam & Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven (2024) - A framework for ex-ante evaluation of the potential effects of risk equalization and risk sharing in health insurance markets with regulated competition - Health Economics Review, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s13561-024-00540-4 - [link]
- Richard C. van Kleef, Mieke Reuser, Thomas G. McGuire, John Armstrong, Konstantin Beck, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Randall P. Ellis, Francesco Paolucci, Erik Schokkaert & Juergen Wasem (2024) - Scope and Incentives for Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets With Regulated Competition: A Conceptual Framework and International Comparison - Medical Care Research and Review, 81 (3), 175-194 - doi: 10.1177/10775587231222584 - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & Rudy Douven (2024) - Heteroscedasticity of residual spending after risk equalization: a potential source of selection incentives in health insurance markets with premium regulation - European Journal of Health Economics, 25 (3), 379-396 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-023-01592-9 - [link]
- A. A. Withagen-Koster, R. C. van Kleef & F. Eijkenaar (2024) - High-risk pooling for mitigating risk selection incentives in health insurance markets with sophisticated risk equalization: an application based on health survey information - Bmc Health Services Research, 24 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10774-x - [link]
- Andreea Panturu, Michel Oskam, Rene van Vliet & Richard van Kleef (2023) - Potentiële gamechanger zorgverzekeringsmarkt - Actuaris - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & René C.J.A. van Vliet (2023) - Improving diagnosis-based cost groups in the Dutch risk equalization model: the effects of a new clustering method and allowing for multimorbidity - International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 23 (2), 303-324 - doi: 10.1007/s10754-023-09345-0 - [link]
American Journal of Health Economics
- Start date approval
- april 2024
- End date approval
- april 2027
- Place
- SCHIPLUIDEN
- Description
- Board member
PwC Middle East
- Start date approval
- juli 2025
- End date approval
- december 2025
- Place
- DUBAI
- Description
- International advisor & participation in workshop
University of Newcastle Australia
- Start date approval
- juli 2025
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- NEWCASTLE
- Description
- Research and teaching
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GWAVV-24
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW101K
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4555M
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4592M
Economics and Financing
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4567M
